Afifah Shukri Quotes

#1. I have found the more worthwhile something is, the more of your life is required to achieve it.

Chris Matakas

#2. A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#3. When is a Beryl not a Beryl? 'When it's a Claudia,' he said.

Stephen King

#4. Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.

Barbara Delinsky

#5. Now that, said the monster, is how destruction is properly done.

Patrick Ness

#6. The biggest doubts come in the five minutes after I hit send.

Robin Hobb

#7. When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#8. APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Ambrose Bierce

#9. The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders! ... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

Robert Bresson

#10. Basically, what happened was, I had moved out to Los Angeles, I was pretty damn lazy and I put on some pounds.

Jason Biggs

#11. Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer had consequence for you, too.

Tobias Wolff